Special advocate move 'a smack in the face for survivors like me,' says Kerryman

James Sugrue was boarded out to a family in Kilgarvan as a child, having been placed in the Killarney county home with his two siblings.

A Kerryman who was boarded out to a family as a child but is excluded from the State’s redress scheme has described the recruitment of a special advocate "as another smack in face for survivors like him".

On Thursday, the Department of Children wrote to survivors of different institutions saying it was hiring a Special Advocate to support them.